Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1887-09-29

old familg sunrnal.
september 80. 1887.
We need Wood. Would that some OF
opr wood-promising patrons would realize
o.
Tsrnshaw & DOoley are tin-rOOfng the
new house Of Mr.. Barney Lloyd on George
street.
Mr.. Charles Brown expects to have an
Opening Of his Jewelry Establishment on
Monday next.
The burning out Of chimney at Mr.. f.
a.. Buffers s.dence caused an alarm OF
fire on Monday night.
Prof Woofer, for two years past Prinei-
pal of Shepherd College, has returned to
parkersburg, his former home.
The time for and theme of a lecture by
Hon. VIM. L. Wilson at Ksbletown, for the
benefit Of the church there, win be duly an
nounced.
Mrs. Cordelia Hardesty, widow Of the late
lanes Hardestv and step mother of Mrs.
Clarence d. Ely Of this town, died near
Berryyille on Tuesday.
Earnshaw & DoOley have fine stock OF
Cook & Heating Stoves beautiful in pat
terms Of the latest styles, and they will put
them up to the entire satisfaction Of the
purchasers.
Rev. :. A. Lewis, pastor of the COlOred
Methodist Church has been granted va
cation. and will visit his old home in Green
brier county.
The next Stated Meeting of Winchester
Presbytery will be held in this place April
18th. next. Sometime ahead, but pleas
ant prospect.
An attempt was made on sunday night
last 90 burglarize the store of Mr. Hagley.
Burglars are about and it viii be well for
our people % be watchiul
s
Messrs. Earnshaw d Dooley will tin-roof
the addition 10 the Methodist Church .col-
oredl and the building at County Infrmary
now I'm course of construction under con-
trac, with T. z. Lippitt.
In attempting to get upon a train in mo-
tion at Shenandoah Junction, Harry Shat
fer Of Hagerstown, brakeman on the ). V.
r R., had his thigh fractured by being
crushed against a building
The Hacer,town Agricultural Associa-
tion Fair, always a big thing, is to be sim
ply immense thisyea Great preparations
are making for the accommodation of ex-
hibits beyond any previous year.
Letters are advertised at Charleston for
John W. Locke. Miss Bess Middlekauff,
Mrs. Lydia Mitchell, Miss Mary Rush, Mrs
Jennie Shut, Miss Augusta V. Wilson,
Mrs. A. W Wilson and :. 9. Young.
Thomas c. Prince, supervisor Of trains,
Eastern Division, Main Stem, Baltimore
and Ohio Railroad, has been appointed act
ing superintendent Of the Harper's Ferry
and Valley Division, vice A. Gordon Jones
resigned
The Cedar Greek church in which the re-
cent session Of the Winchester Presbytery
was held is claimed to be the oldest place of
worship in the Valley Of Virginia. Pres
bytery also met there in 1896 and in 1910
Tie associations are hallowed.
Now is the time to have your stoves put
up, and Earu-haw d Dooley are at the ser
vice Of the public. What they do not know
ab0u, the business isn't worth knowing.
Don't attempt to adjust your own stove
pipes-you are almost sure to fail and be
ye1ed-besides the temptation to say "cuss
words is almost too strong for poor, weak
human nature.
John Harris, colored of Shepherdstown,
has recently been the recipient Of a Gov
eminent draft for Sl2l50O-pension back
pay, and in the future will get $500 per
month. He contracted hernia during the
war whilst in the service of the L. ;. He
bad been a long time pushing his claim and
bis persistency was rewarded by a Demo
cratic administration
just as we 20 to press we are informed of
the death, this "wednesday morning, Of
Mrs. VIM. n Craighill. She had dressed
herself for the day and was suddenly strick-
en- by illness and died before a physician
could reach her Her devoted husband, the
'amented citizen, died on the 9TH instant
In life, for more than a half century, they
We're as one; in death they are not separate.
Both are subjects for the highest eulogy,
but we refrain. Many viii mourn the de